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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I want you to remember while all this clown show is going down that they managed to make their party less palatable than Donald. Fucking. Trump.

They could have won so easily. They could have absolutely swept it. It would have been a cakewalk for them to stop funding genocide. That's all it would have taken.

Now imagine if they did that AND properly cancelled student loan debt like they promised.

Imagine if they had taken the threat of the Republican party seriously instead of reaching across they isle

Imagine if they had stopped abortion bans and secured woman's autonomy.

Imagine if they had cracked down on landlords and rent prices. Sure rich people would complain but that's easily combated by paying for advertising showing renters being like "this is great I can actually afford to live now."

Imagine if they had cut out the stupid means testing red tape crap and actually funded poor people instead of wars to get them in homes, off the streets and gasp spending money in the economy? You could have easily sold it to small businesses as "Hey we're going to give poor people money, where do you think they're going to spend it? At your business, idiot."

Even something simple like capping fuel prices at a reasonable rate would have absolutely destroyed any bad blood between voters and the Dems

They could have had the easiest victory, but they didn't have the spine to betray their wealthy donors. They never intended to win and might as well be an arm of the Republican party. It has to be on purpose.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

This site's fixation on the democrats has become really tiring. I swear republicans could be piling us into a pit, and every other Hexbear would say to the republican death squad "this is the democrats' fault actually, but also it doesn't matter because a democrat president has literally no difference from a republican president anyway"

Apparently, the democrats are rational actors who can choose to stem the tide of fascism if they wanted to whereas the republicans are just some force of nature that we accept as an unavoidable occurance.

PLEASE kill the last vestiges of electoralism in your head. These people are of the same apparatus. They could have stopped trump from taking the presidency? No they couldn't have because they're fucking neolibs who enact neolib policies. If they enacted progressive policies, they wouldn't be the fucking democrats anymore. It's like saying a bear could have avoided drowning in the lake if it were a fish.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Yes, and it also betrays how heavily American hexbear is.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

You're not wrong but iirc @[email protected] isn't American, and of course people will talk about American politics during the inauguration when American politics have far reaching consequences for other countries.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Yup, my country has been turned into a glorified US military base. When we tried to close it a few decades back, the US pushed out our democratically elected leader and the base has been off limits ever since.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

It's upsetting how little this narrows it down

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Australia I think

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

my life dream is to steal a mortar and shell pine gap for a laugh

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